The plant kingdom covers the entire earth, offering our senses great pleasure and the delights of summer.
Carl LinnaeusWhen all the thoughts are concerning one thing and the person loses interest in other things, the melancholy begins.
Carl LinnaeusThere are some viviparous flies, which bring forth 2,000 young. These in a little time would fill the air, and like clouds intercept the rays of the sun, unless they were devoured by birds, spiders, and many other animals.
Carl LinnaeusThe species and the genus are always the work of nature [i.e. specially created]; the variety mostly that of circumstance; the class and the order are the work of nature and art.
Carl Linnaeus